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#vBrownBag Google Cloud Platform – Google Cloud Datastore with Sandeep Dinesh (@sandeepdinesh)

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Sandeep Dinesh covers the use cases for NoSQL databases before diving into the features of Google Cloud Datastore and wraps up with a live Python and Datastore demo. Google Cloud Datastore Video You can find Sandeep on Twitter @sandeepdinseh and examples like the one used tonight on https://github.com/thesandlord/samples/tree/master/google-cloud-datastore/interactive-demo Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the
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Rebuild the vCenter 4.1 Database

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After purging my vCenter database, I seemingly corrupted it (I should have taken a snapshot first). In this case, as the database was small (read: 1 host, 6 VMs) I decided to rebuild it. This is not something you’ll want to do lightly, as well, everything kinda goes away. If you do proceed with this
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Pruning vCenter 4.1 Database Using SQL Express

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My home lab vCenter is a self contained Windows 2008 R2 VM, running vCenter 4.1 on SQL Express. Last night, I ran into an issue where the vCenter service would not start, in fact, it was quite angry. Why? Well it seems after 14(ish) days I had hit the 4GB database limit. Here’s the process
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Holy Cluster Batman! – Oracle 10g RAC on ESX 3.5

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The following is a guide on how to get Oracle 10g R2 RAC installed on ESX 3.5 using CentOS Virtual Machines. Quite a mouthful, isn’t it? This was written up by Justin Mungal. In the guide Justin covers every thing needed to get Oracle RAC installed on ESX 3.5 and then some. It should be
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